Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-07
ETHAN ALLEN AND NATURES
AVIS

Edlors TalL. FJejd and Farm.-In your
paper, under date of Feb. II. appeared an
article on Ethan Allen and the Morgans,
by Breeder" | wish to answer some of
the statements there made 4 great deal
has been written by those who wish to
make out that Black Hawk was sired by
a Canadian horse, and not by Sherman
Morgan, and that Ethan Allen was by
Flying Morgan, instead of Black Hawk.
These men claim that if the above are not
facts that natures laws are defective.
Color has always been the great argu-
ment to prove their statements.
breeder" saws it is well to consider
the resemblance that always exists be-
tween offspring and parent and those that
are related, whether in the human family
or among the domestic animals. He says
that every one of experience has had
proof of it by meeting persons that were
strangers, yet so strong did they resem-
BILE some one that he knew that he was
certain that the stranger was father or
son or brother, to the one he knew, and
upon inquiry it would be found to be so.
This he says shows the law of nature
that blood will tell that like will pro-
duce like: as if the likeness of some an-
ccstor does not prove false or uncertain.
Again he says IA mother astonshes her
family by presenting them IA mulatto
child.
How she protested her innocence. Yet
no one believed her, because it was con-
trary to natures laws.
Now we propose 10 answer the above
remarks, keeping strictly within the
bounds of natures laws. The breeding
of the trotting horse by the most intell-
gent breeders has always been on the
eclectic principle, to combine the best
producing blood from different families.
This has given the best results.
If the time ever comes when we have a
thoroughbred trotter, we shall have more
uniformity in color, but as long as the
present system of breeding continues, we
shall have all the different colors that we
have had for the past hundred years or
more; also the same difference in temper
ament and trotting action. Every one
knows with what certainty the breeder
of thoroughbred cattle reproduces the
same color. As soon as he commences
mixing different blood, then comes a va
rety of colors and other characteristics.
In my native town there was a family
of six children, four boys and two girls.
The Oldest son had black hair and black
eyes, the second had brown hair and blue
eyes, the third had bright red hair and
gray eyes, the fourth had red hair and
gray eyes. One daughter had red hair
and gray eyes, the other had light sandy
hair and gray eyes. The character of
this family differed as much as the color
of their hair and eyes.
What can be said of this family can be
said of many others. The father of this
family had red hair and gray eyes, the
mother had black hair and black eyes.
Sherman Morgan was a chestnut, with
one hind leg white half way to his hook,
with white stripe in his face. His dam
was also chestnut and had a SPAWN,
which may have been the cause of SPAWN
in some of his descendants. 1t is certain
that Black Hawk had black mother.
He got black fOals as we'll as sorrels, with
white hind legs halfway to their hooks.
Ethan Allen was bay, and had white
mother or light gray. His descendants
are sorrel, bay, chestnut and black
quite a number are coal black. Many
have white legs and stripe in the face.
The head, eye, ear, feet and legs of Black
Hawk had the same characteristics of
Ethan Allen and his descendants. Black
Hawk and his descendants have always
been priced very highly for their beauty,
symmetry and fine trotting action. Does
this look as though he was sired by Can
muck instead of Sherman Morgan, who
had the characteristics of Black Hawk?
How about the prepotency of Black
Hawk and his sons and daughters, and
Flying Morgan and his descendants? We
must look out for natures laws, you
know. Flying Morgan was able to get
Ira Allen, with record of 2 :36, who in
turn sired Ripton Boy, with record of